Meghan Markle’s ‘overjoyed’ mother Doria Ragland WASN’T present at Lilbet’s birth

Meghan Markle’s mother, Doria Ragland, wasn’t present at Lilbet’s birth but is now helping out her daughter and Prince Harry in their $14M Montecito mansion, according to reports. 

The yoga teacher, 64, is  ‘overjoyed’ at the arrival of her first granddaughter and is assisting the new parents, sources told Page Six.

The 7lbs 11oz baby – whose middle name is Diana – was born on Friday evening, British time in Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital in California, a private facility where births cost up to £20,000.

The Queen is known as ‘Lilibet’ by close members of the Royal Family, which originated when she was a child and struggled to pronounce Elizabeth, and was used by her father King George VI. 

It’s thought at ‘Lili’ as the baby will be known is also a tribute to Doria, who has always referred to Meghan as ‘her flower’. 

Doria, who lives in LA near Meghan and Harry, flew to London ahead of the birth of the couple’s first child Archie in 2019 to help prepare Meghan for her first child.     

It was also Doria who broke the news of her grandson’s birth to her ex-husband Thomas Markle, according to Meghan’s biographers. 

Te yoga teacher, 64, is ‘overjoyed’ at the arrival of her first granddaughter and is assisting the new parents, sources told Page Six . Meghan is pictured with Harry while pregnant with Lili

In Finding Freedon, the book about how the Sussex’s left the Firm, authors Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand write: ‘Doria messaged Thomas with the news, which Meghan had asked her to. 

‘The new mother did not want him to find out after the rest of the world. But she didn’t want to know whether her father replied to her mother’s text.’  

It comes as experts have claimed Lilibet could prove herself to be a ‘Band-Aid baby’ that helps to ‘return the family to some form of normality.

The Queen’s 11th grandchild arrived just days before both Prince William and Harry are expected to reunite together in public at the unveiling of their late mother Princess Diana’s statue at Kensington Palace to mark what would have been her 60th birthday.

Speaking to The Telegraph, Angela Levin claimed: ‘Before she is even a month old, Lilibet could yet prove herself to be a “Band-Aid baby” – a sticking plaster in Royal form to return the family to some form of normality after the turbulent year and a half since Megxit sparked several rounds of very public – and occasionally painful – soul-baring.’

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s daughter Lilibet could prove herself to be a ‘Band-Aid baby’ that helps to ‘return the family to some form of normality,’ royal expert Angela Levin has claimed. Pictured, during the bombshell Oprah Winfrey chat

It comes after the Duke of Sussex dropped a series of nuclear ‘truth bombs’ on the Royal Family during recent interviews.

Opening up in his new five-part AppleTV+ docuseries with Oprah Winfrey, Prince Harry accused them of ‘total silence’ and ‘neglect’ when Meghan was suicidal, claiming his father Prince Charles made him ‘suffer’ as a child and insisting he would not be ‘bullied into silence’ when he alleged ‘The Firm’ ‘trapped’, smeared and dumped them.

In candid interviews, the Duke of Sussex said he and his wife felt abandoned by his relatives and this was one of their ‘biggest reasons’ for leaving for California last year.

He told Oprah: ‘Certainly now I will never be bullied into silence’, adding: ‘I thought my family would help, but every single ask, request, warning, whatever it is, just got met with total silence, total neglect. We spent four years trying to make it work.’